Peters recruited fellow drama student Rik Mayall principally because they shared the same off-beat humour – anarchic slapstick mixed with a large dose of Monty Python's Flying Circus.
Two further drama students were recruited from the year below, and, in October 1976, Adrian Edmondson joined, to appear in Coyote's first improv-based comedy entitled "Dead Funny" (1976).
Although the group initially had five members, by the time "20th Century Coyote" began appearing at The Comedy Store in London, it had become a double act with just Edmondson and Mayall.
Although Edmondson and Mayall did not subsequently use the title "20th Century Coyote" for their partnership, its style was reflected heavily in The Young Ones and Bottom.
Rik starred in Lloyd Peters' BBC Radio 4 comedy-drama 'A Higher Education' (2000, repeated regularly) where he plays 'Don Crookfield' the Head of a failing University Performance Department.